This year, the project “Three-dimensional square” by Ceramiche Refin will be a lively presence at Fuorisalone.
Besides the remarkable installation in front of Triennale Palace, Refin’s exibition will be placed at Refin Studio showroom, as well. A recently inaugurated new space in the heart of Milan, to promote a dialogue between architects and professionals.
The project “Three-dimensional square” reflects Refin’s engagement in the fields of research, innovation, eco-sustainability and exploration of new horizons, to aspire to establish a new perspective in the ceramic world, through the projects of some of the most advanced designer in the international scene.
If it is true that the square is the classic shape of the ceramic tile, then it is also true that, not only does it stir symbolic memories in our minds, but also democratic ones.
But a square is also a two-dimensional geometric shape, and requires a certain amount of imagination to picture it as a three-dimensional form in the depths of space and time.
The seeming contradiction of the definition has a logic, an almost algorithmic one: three designers involved in one project, three paths to chose from in a bid to take ceramic covering to a new level of evolution.
But this third dimension is a treacherous one, an attempt at discovering other paths, to understand just how successfully product design can morph into process design, stimulating our senses, transmuting all possible destinations of use, implanting new ways of behaviour.
Experimentation is therefore not only the articulation of the results, but, first and foremost, is intrinsic to requirements.
Perspectives change and perhaps, if we look closely enough, a square can have more than three dimensions.
All 3 designers have discovered their own understanding of innovation, a transversal commitment to the corporate strategies, to enliven with new meaning, towards avant-garde explanations of creative research, eco-sustainability and craftsmanship.
While Massimiliano Adami has decided to work on the tile orthogonality, introducing a design destabilising its usual aesthetics towards a more natural, almost hand-made inspiration, Lorenzo Damiani focuses on the sustainability of the tile, trying to find the key that will unlock new recycling solutions, both materially and formally, while Luca Nichetto has fascinating new ideas to evaluate innovative production procedures, to stratify varying manufacturing processes and break down the components, elevating them to become protagonists.
Fuori Salone Circuit
Triennale di Milano
Refin Studio – Foro Buonaparte 68
April, 13 – 19; open from 10.00 until 22.00
Cocktail on invitation, Wednesday 14 April, from 6.00 pm until 10.00 pm
